#ring-billed gull

[fullfrontalbirds]

Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)

© Hannah Leabhart

[stickynotebirds]

350. Ring-billed Gull

[meklarian]

Ring-billed Gull San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Irvine, California, USA December, 2019

(more gulls here)

[spinus-pinus]

Heermann's Gull and Ring-billed Gull Larus heermanni and Larus delawarensis

1/21/2023 Orange County, California

[hawkshawed]

Ring-Billed Gull in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Ring-billed Gull Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6

[clove-pinks]

Some goodies from the National Museum of the Great Lakes. A ring-billed gull plush that squawks!! ❤️

I'm currently wearing my new Don't Give Up the Ship t-shirt (modeled after Perry's flag).

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

The Power; The Pose; The Majesty

[dinictis]

Also here's some color quantized (done w/ k-means) pics I made while experimenting with the background removal transparent stuff. Gull is the same one I made transparent here. The effect gives the photos a pretty cool gba screenshot sort of look

Dark-eyed junco, ring-billed gull, Libellula pulchella, six-spotted tiger beetle

[lonelywretchjervistetch]

The State Bird Initiative - Delaware: Archetypes

Hello! If you've been waiting for another State Bird Initiative poll, don't worry! Massachusetts is coming soon! Been busy with grad school and life things (been an...interesting fall), so my attention was pretty heavily diverted, and Massachusetts is going to be...interesting. But in the meantime, I've been thinking about something. If you'd like to know more about these characters, go ahead and check out the post after the jump!

When I was a kid (long long ago, in the forgotten age known as the '90s), I was a big fan of the magazine series Ranger Rick. If you've never heard of it, just know that it's a book published by the National Wildlife Federation for kid, teaching them about animals and the environment through fun articles, games, and comics that star the titular character, Ranger Rick, and his various animal friends. Just know that I loved the hell out of this series as a kid. And hey, for those of you youngsters that grew up without this book (even though it's still being published, apparently, alongside the nostalgia fuel that is Zoobooks), you may identify more with shows like Zoboomafoo or Wild Kratts, amongst other animal shows for kids.

As a former (and future) teacher, I'm a big fan of teaching aids for kids, especially things that get them excited and interested in a given subject. Since a huge part of the State Bird Initiative is meant to choose birds that kids and other can identify with their home state, I had the idea to make archetypal representatives for each of the nominated species. Kind of like mascots. I'm calling them Archetypes in this post, but I'll probably come up with a better name for these guys. And yes, I'll be making some more of these in the future, ideally for every state, with some characters returning for multiple posts.

Each of the above birds are highlighted in the polls for the Initiative, and each is given a name based somehow on their species. Those descriptions are beneath the pictures themselves. Remember, these are meant to archetypal characters for kids to identify with, Ranger Rick-style, meaning that their characters are somewhat simple for kids to latch on and gets attached to. Call this an educational concept, were the State Bird Initiative actually to be official. This is just the first of these posts, so it's a bit rough and descriptive. So, with that, any feedback is welcomed for these five colorful characters!

[willaughosaurus]

[fatbirdpics]

Oh bless @wtylas for the tags below! GULLS

Now I just have to find out who these people are (I think one of them is the guy from New Girl but I can’t tell him and John Mulaney apart)

gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders

[feastonthelake]

Grant Park, South Milwaukee, WI, USA

March 2021

Samsung Galaxy S8

[meklarian]

Ring-billed Gull, in flight J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge Sanibel, Florida, USA December, 2019

(more gulls here)

[spinus-pinus]

Heermann's Gull and Ring-billed Gull Larus heermanni and Larus delawarensis

1/21/2023 Orange County, California

[hawkshawed]

Ring-Billed Gull, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York